Ciara O'Herlihy

Experience

Ciara advises clients on a wide range of Irish corporate law matters, including mergers and acquisitions, private equity transactions, joint ventures, corporate governance, corporate reorganisations, carve-outs and other significant corporate transactions.   

She has particular experience advising private equity sponsors and financial institutions on their investments in Ireland, as well as on complex multi-jurisdiction corporate reorganisations.

Ciara’s experience spans a broad range of sectors, with a particular focus on life sciences, aviation, defence, technology, communications and infrastructure.   

Key highlights include advising:

• Klas Group, a leading Irish engineering and design company specialising in developing ruggedized communications solutions for the network edge, on the sale of Klas Group to Anduril Industries Inc, a leading US defence technology company.
• Bankinter S.A., a leading European bank with operations in Spain, Portugal, Luxembourg and Ireland, on the establishment of its Irish branch and the cross-border merger of AvantCard DAC into the Irish branch of Bankinter S.A.
• ITOCHU Corporation, one of the largest corporations in Japan, on its strategic investment in Killick Aerospace Limited.   
• KKR / GIP on the Irish aspects of their $15 billion take-private acquisition of CyrusOne, the biggest data centre acquisition in history.   
• ORIX Corporation on the Irish aspects of its acquisition of a 30% shareholding in Avolon Holdings.
• Luminate Capital Partners, a leading enterprise software focused private equity firm, on its strategic investment in Compliance and Risks.
• Apollo Global Management, on its acquisition of 37MW Tullahennel wind farm from GE Capital and its subsequent sale to Greencoat Renewables.
• EQT Infrastructure on the Irish aspects of its $2.5bn acquisition of EdgeConneX, a leading global data center provider serving the fast-growing hyperscale and edge ecosystems.    
• Sirius Aviation Capital on its establishment and a number of separate aircraft leasing joint ventures with US private equity funds Corrum Capital and HPS Investment Partners. 
• Sam McCauley Chemists, on its sale by Melior Equity Partners, to Uniphar plc.